Las Cartucheras Airport

No official reason has been published. The closure was likely due to one or more of the following factors common for small, private airfields:
1. **Economic Reasons:** The owner may have found the cost of maintenance and operation to be no longer economically viable.
2. **Change in Ownership/Use:** The property may have been sold, or the owner may have ceased aviation activities, rendering the airstrip obsolete for their needs.
3. **Security Concerns:** In the state of Chihuahua, Mexican authorities (including the military) have been known to disable private airstrips to prevent their use by drug cartels for illicit logistics. While there is no direct evidence this happened here, it remains a plausible reason for the closure of unmonitored rural airstrips in the region.

The site is no longer a functional airport. Recent satellite imagery confirms that the former dirt runway is now overgrown with vegetation and is used as a farm track or access road. There are no remaining airport infrastructure, such as hangars, terminals, or runway markings. The land appears to have been fully reclaimed for agricultural or ranching use.

Las Cartucheras Airport was a small, private, unpaved airstrip. Its identifier, MX-0923, is a non-official, national-level code, indicating it was not part of Mexico's public airport network (which uses 'MM' prefixes). Its primary role was to support general aviation for the surrounding agricultural and ranching operations. Operations would have been limited to small, single-engine aircraft used for purposes such as crop dusting, personal transportation for the ranch owners, and movement of light supplies. It never served commercial, scheduled passenger, or cargo traffic and held no significant role in national aviation history.

There are no known or published plans to reopen Las Cartucheras Airport. Given that it was a small private field that has fallen into a state of disrepair, any prospect of reopening would depend entirely on the private landowner's initiative and investment. With no apparent commercial or public demand, a return to aviation service is considered highly unlikely.